UALA LUMPUR: Port of Tanjung Pelepas’ (PTP) throughput rose by more than 8% to 9.8 million TEUs (twenty-equivalent units) total throughput in 2020, which a record, reaping from its more than RM700mil in its port.
In a statement on Monday, it said this was a strong terminal growth from the 9.1 million TEUs recorded in 2019 despite global economic uncertainties and health pandemic.
PTP, a joint venture between Malaysian based MMC Group and Hague based APM Terminals, also posted a record in TEUs handling in a month with 967,783 TEUs as well as the highest moves in a single shift with a total of 12,411 moves (19,984 TEUs) last December.
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